This document contains questions about DNA extraction from strawberries including where DNA is found, how extraction is used in laboratories, that each cell contains 6 feet of DNA, why strawberries are good for extraction, that DNA is coiled around histones and must be separated from cell membranes and proteins using alcohol or detergent, and that DNA precipitates out of solution when cold alcohol is added and can then be spooled out of the solution.

1. DNA Extraction from Strawberries PPT Questions
1. Where is DNA found?
2. How is DNA extraction used in laboratories?
3. Each cell has _____ feet of DNA.
4. In an average meal, you eat about ___________ cells or ________ miles of DNA.
5. Why are strawberries so good to use for extracting DNA?
6. What are cell membranes composed of?
7. DNA is tightly coiled around _______________ called _____________.
8. What must be used to remove the phospholipids and proteins?
9. What else can be used to remove the proteins from DNA?
10. DNA will ________ dissolve in water, but it will dissolve in ______________.
11. Why should the alcohol and test tube with DNA be kept cold?
12. What is the purpose of filtering the solution?
13. Adding cold alcohol causes DNA to ______________ or separate from the
solution.
14. DNA appears as a ___________ precipitate when alcohol is added.
15. Explain spooling.